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Deutscher Isaac, The Prophet Outcast - Trotsky: 1929-1940, Good condition £6
The Prophet Unarmed - Trotsky 1921-1929, Good condition £6 19
The Prophet Armed - Trotsky 1879-1929, Good condition £6
Purchase all three volumes for £15
Allen Kieran, The Politics of James Connolly, Good condition £6
Anderson JL, Che Guevara - A Revolutionary Life, Good condition £8
Basso Lelio, Rosa Luxemburg A reappraisal, Good condition £7
Benn T, Tony Benn diaries: Out of the Wilderness 1963-67, Good condition £5
Benn T, Tony Benn diaries: Office without power 1968-72, Good condition £10
Benn T, Tony Benn diaries: Free at last 1991-2001, Good condition £5
Cliff Tony, Trotsky 1917-1923 The sword of the revolution, Good condition £5
Cliff Tony, Trotsky 1879-1917 Towards October, Good condition £5
Cliff Tony, Trotsky 1923-1927 Fighting the rising Stalinist bureaucracy, Good condition £5
Debray Regis, Che's Guerrilla War, Fair condition £4
Frolich P, Rosa Luxemburg Fair condition (annotated) £5
Guevara Aleida, Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America, As new, £4
Guevara, Ernesto Che, The Bolivian Diary, As new, £7
Levin Dan, Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky £8
Martin J, Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon, As new £7.50
Mendel H, Memoirs of a Jewish Revolutionary, Very good condition/hardback £12
Milton Nan, John Maclean, Good condition £8
Morton AL, A People's History of England, Fair condition, old (Victor Golanncz 1938 first edition), £4
Murphy JT, Preparing for Power, Fair condition £3
Skidelsky Robert, John Maynard Keynes - Fighting For Britain 1937-1946 (volume 3), As new £8.50
Skidelsky Robert, Oswald Mosley,Very good condition £20
Benjamin Walter, Understanding Brecht, Fair condition £
Campschreur W + Divendal J, Culture in another South Africa, Very good condition £8.50
Eagleton Terry, Literary Theory an introduction, Good condition £2.50
Edgar David, The Second Time as Farce - Reflection on the Drama of Mean Times, Good condition £8
Hobsbawn EJ, The Jazz Scene, Good condition, £1.50
Ali T, Masters of the Universe?, As new £15
Ali T, The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Good condition £6.50
Baez Antonio Carmona, State resistance to globalisation in Cuba, Very Good condition £7
Bakan J, The Corporation, New £6.50
Burbach, Núnez, Kagarlitsky, Globalization and its discontents - the rise of postmodern socialists, Good condition £12.50
Chomsky N, The Culture of Terrorism, Good condition £8
Dyer Gwynne, Future Tense: The Coming World Order, New, £6
Foster JB, Pox Americana Imperialism, Very good condition £10
Gray Anne, Unsocial Europe, Social Protection or Flexploitation, As new, £11
Hardt + Negri M, Empire Good condition £13
Harvey Robert, Global Disorder, How to avoid a Fourth World War, Good Condition, £5
Hitchens C, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, As new £5
Holloway J, Change the World without taking power, Good, annotated £10
John Steve and Thomson Stuart, New Activism and the Corporate Response, hard back, Very good condition, £10
Moore M, Will they ever trust us again? - letters from the war zone, Very good condition £7.25
Palast G, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, New £6
Patomaki H, Democratising Globalisation - The Leverage of the Tobin Tax, As new £14.50
Polet F, Globalizing Resistance - The State of Struggle, As new £10
Ross A, No Sweat, Good condition, annotated £8.50
Rivers Pitt W, The Greatest Sedition is Silence, As new £7
Schalit Joel ed, The Anti-capitalism Reader, Imagining a Geography of Opposition, good condition, £6
Stauber J + Rampton S, Toxic sludge is good for you!, New £6.50
Stiglitz JE, Globalization and its discontents, As new £5.50
Toynbee P, Hard Work - Life in Low-pay Britain Very good Toynbee P £4.50
Waterman P + Wills J, Place, Space and the new labour internationalisms, As new £12
Britain:
Benewick Robert, The fascist movement in Britain, Very good condition, £10
Bornstein S and Richardson A, Against the Stream - A history of the Trotskyists Movement in Britain 1924-38, fair condition, £15
Bornstein S and Richardson A, War and International, A History of the Trotskyist Movement in Britain 1937-1949, Fair condition, £8
Cliff T, Class Struggle and Women's Liberation, Good condition £4
Croucher Richard, Engineers at War 1939-1945, Good condition £4
Crick Michael, Militant, Fair condition, £2.50
Davis Mary, Comrade or brother- The History of the British labour movement 1789-1951, Good condition £5
Faber R, Young England, Very good condition £5
Hinton, James and Richard Hyman, Trade unions and revolution: the industrial politics of the early British Communist Party Socialism, Good condition £3
Hosbsbawn EJ + Rude George, Captain Swing Good condition £5
MacKenzie Midge, Shoulder to Shoulder - Votes for Women, Good condition £5
Morris Margaret, The General Strike, Good condition £5
Panitch Leo and Leys Colin, The End of Parliamentary Socialism, From New Left to New Labour, Good Condition, £7
Phelps Brown Henry, The Origins of Trade Union Power, Fair condition £2
Rothstein Andrew, The Soldiers Strikes of 1919, Good condition/hardback with dustcover £15
Rothstein Theodore, From Chartism to Labourism, Good condition £8
Sellwood AV, Police Strike, Good condition, £5
Carribbean:
James CLR, The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution, Very good condition £7
France:
Danos, Jacques and Marcel Gibelin, June 36 - Class struggle and the Popular Front in France, Very good condition £4
Germany:
Mehring Franz, Absolutism and Revolution in Germany 1525-1848, Good condition £9
Ireland:
Bell Geoffrey, The Protestants of Ulster, Good condition £4
Farrell Michael, Northern Ireland: The Orange State History, Good condition £15
Morgan Austen and Bob Purdie, Ireland: divided nation, divided class, Good condition £4
Italy:
Spriano Paulo, The Occupation of the Factories Italy 1920, Good condition, annotated £6
North America/USA:
Brecher J, Strike!, Hardback very good condition/paperback £11/£5
Foner Philip S, The Case of Joe Hill, Good condition, £5
Foner Philip S, The Policies and Practices of the American Federation of Labor 1900-1909 - History of the labor movement in the United States, volume 3, Very good condition £5
Foner Philip S, US Labor and the Vietnam War, Good condition £5
Guerin Daniel, 100 years of Labor in the USA, Good condition £8
Hart JM, Anarchism and the Mexican working class, 1860-1931, Good condition £8
O'Connor Harvey, Revolution in Seattle, Delicate condition (pages coming out) £5
Middle East:
Fisk Robert, Pity the Nation - Lebanon at War, Very good condition/hardback £6.50
Spain:
Fraser Ronald, Blood of Spain, The experience of civil war 1936-1939, Good condition £8
Morrow Felix, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain, Fair condition £5
Thomas Hugh, The Spanish Civil War, Fair condition, £1.50
Aristotle, Ethics, Good condition £2
Aristotle, The Politics, Good condition £2
Carr EH, What is History?, Good condition £2
Baiocchi G, Radicals in Power (Brazil), As new £13
Castaneda J, Utopia Unarmed (Latin American), Good condition, £7
Harris J, So Now Who Do We Vote For?, Good condition £3
McSmith A, Faces of Labour, (UK, New Labour to 1997) Fair condition £4.50
Monbiot George, Captive State - The corporate takeover of Britain, Good condition £2
Moody Kim, An Injury to all - the decline of American Unionism, Fair condition, annotated £4
Moore M, Stupid White Men, Good condition £2
Younge G, No Place Like Home ( USA/racism), As new £5.50
1903 - Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (record of), Good condition £8
Anweiler Oskar, The Soviets - The Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils 1905-1921, Good condition £8
Carr EH, The Bolshevik Revolution - 1917-1923 volume 2, Old (1954 edition)/good condition £8/£4.50
Clark Ronald W, Lenin, the man behind the mask, Hard back Good Condition, £7
Furedi F, The Soviet Union Demystified, Good £8
Harman Chris, Bureaucracy and Revolution in Eastern Europe, Fair condition £3
Hesse Bertil (intro), Theses, Resolutions and Manifestos of the First Four Congresses of the Third International £7
Ilyin-Zhenevsky AF, The Bolsheviks in Power, Very good condition, £5
Laquer Walter, Stalin the Glasnost Revelationss, Hard back, good condition £10
Leviné-Meyer Rosa, Inside German Communism, Good condition, first edition £13.50
Lewin Moshe, Lenin's Last Struggle, Good condition £5
Leibman Marcel, Leninism under Lenin, £7
MacShane Denis, Solidarity - Poland's Independent Trade Union History, Good condition £2
Mitchell David, 1919 Red Mirage, Good condition £8
Melograni Piero, Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution Ideology and Reasons of State, 1917-1920, hardback, good condition, £9
Pelikan Jiri, Socialist Opposition in Eastern Europe - the Czechoslovak example, Good condition £11
Rosmer A, Lenin's Moscow, 1971 Pluto Press edition/Bookmarks new condition £8/£2.50
White Stephen, Britain and the Bolshevik Revolution, Good condition £6
Ali T, Trotsky for Beginners, As new £2
Braverman Harry, Labor and Monopoly Capital - the degradation of work in the Twentieth Century, New £6
Dewar Hugo, Communist Politics In Britain - The CPGB from its origins to the Second World War, Good condition £5
Frank Pierre, The Fourth International: The Long March of the Trotskyists, Fair condition (annotated) £7
Liverpool Black Caucus, The Racial Politics of Militant in Liverpool, Good condition £2
MacLean John, In the Rapids of Revolution (essays), Good condition £6
Mandel Ernest, From Stalinism to Eurocommunism, Good condition £2
Mandel E, Trotsky - A Study in the Dynamic of His Thought USSR, Good condition £4.50
Pateman Trevor (ed), Counter Course, Fair condition £1.50
Pelling Henry, The British Communist Party, Good condition £5
Rius, Introducing Marx, Good condition £3
Sivanandan A, Communities of Resistance - writings on black struggles for socialism, Good condition £6.50
Taaffe P, Liverpool - A city that dared to fight Labour, Very good condition £4.50
Wilson Edmund, To the Finland Station - A study in the writing and action of history, Very good condition £5
Woodhouse + Pearce, Essays on the History of Communism in Britain, Good condition £5
James P Cannon:
Notebook of and Agitator, Good condition, £10
Socialism on Trial, Good condition £5
Speeches to the Party, Good condition £5
The First Ten Years of American Communism, Good condition £7
The Struggle for a Proletarian Party, Good/Fair condition £6/£4.50
Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 The Socialist Workers Party in World War II, Good Condition £3.50
p>Frederick Engels:
Germany: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, £3
Letters of the Young Engels 1938-1845, Good condition £5.50
On Marx, New 50p
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy 50p
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, £1
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Fair £3
The Condition of the Working Class in England Fair/hardback/1958 ed. £4
The Housing Question 50p
The part played by labour in the transition from ape to man 50p
VI Lenin:
A Great Beginning, New 50p
Capitalism and Agriculture, Old/Good condition 50p
Collected Works volume 14 1908 £5
Collected Works volume 44 - October 1917-November 1920, Good condition £5
Economics and Politics in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat, New 50p
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Good condition £1.50
Interviews given to foreign correspondents £1
"Left Wing" Communism an infantile disorder £1
Last Letters and Articles, Fair condition £1
Letter to American Workers
Letter to the workers of Europe and America 50p
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism Fair (cover soiled) 50p
On Britain Fair condition, hardcover £3
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, New/good condition £1.50
On Marx and Engels, New .50p
On Public Education £1
On Soviet Socialist Democracy, Fair condition £1.50
On the Great October Socialist Revolution, Good condition/hardback £3
On the National and Colonial Questions, three articles Fair condition £1
On the Paris Commune, Good condition £3
On the Provisional Revolutionary Government, Fair condition 50p
On the Right of Nations to self-determination, Good condition £1
On Utopian and Scientific Socialism Fair/hardback £3
On Youth, Good condition £4
Problems on Building Socialism and Communism in the USSR, Fair condition 50p
Revolutionary Adventurism, Fair condition 50p
Selected Works, Fair condition/hardback £5
Socialism and Religion, Fair condition 50p
Socialism and War, Old 50p
Soviet Power and the Status of Women, Fair condition, 30p
The April Theses
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
The State and Revolution, Fair condition £1.50
The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution, (old) Fair condition £2
The Threatening Catastrophe and how to avoid it £1
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism 50p
Three articles from 1905, Fair condition £1
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, New £1.50
What the Friends of the People are and how they fight the Social-Democrats, Good condition £1.50
Karl Liebknecht:
Militarism and anti-Militarism, Fair condition £6
Rosa Luxemburg:
Rosa Luxemburg Speaks, Good condition £7
Karl Marx/ Karl Marx + Frederick Engels:
Capital Volume 1 New/hardback £4
Capital Volume 2 Hardback £8
Collected Words Volume 4 1844-1845 Hardback/good condition £8
Collected Words Volume 8 1848-1849 Hardback/good condition £8
Collected Works Volume 10 1849-1851 Hardback/good condition £8
Collected Works Volume 11 1851-1853 Hardback/good condition £8
Collected Works Volume 12 1853-1854 Hardback/good condition £8
Collected Works Volume 13 1854-1855 Hardback/good condition £8
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Good/Fair condition £1
Early Writings, Fair condition/annotated £1.50
Grundrisse, Fair condition £3
Manifesto of the Communist Party, New £1
Selected Correspondence Marx and Engels, Good condition £10
The Civil War in France, Fair condition £1.50
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Fair condition £3
The German Ideology, Fair condition £1.50
The Revolutions of 1848, Fair condition £1.50
Wage Labour and Capital, Fair condition 50p
Wages, Prices and Profit, Fair condition 50p
EA Preobrazhensky
From NEP to Socialism, good condition, £4
Leon Trotsky:
Against Individual Terrorism, Good condition, £1 (pamphlet)
Documents of the 1923 Opposition £3
In Defense of Marxism - The Social and Political Contradictions of the Soviet Union Good condition £7
Leon Trotsky Speaks, Good condition, £7.5 (Speeches from the Russian Revolution)
Martyrs of the Third International: Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Fair condition £1.50 (pamphlet)
Marxism and the Trade Unions £1
On Black Nationalism and Self-Determination £5
On France, Good condition £7
On the Paris Commune, Fair condition £2 (pamphlet)
On the Trade Unions, Fair condition £3
Problems of everyday life and other writings on culture and science, Good condition £9
Problems of the British Revolution, Good condition £2 (pamphlet)
Problems of the Chinese Revolution, Good condition £8
Stalinism and Bolshevism - concerning the historical and theoretical roots of the Fourth International Fair condition £1.50 (pamphlet)
Terrorism and Communism, Good condition £6
The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36), Good condition £6
The death agony of capitalism and the tasks of the Fourth International, Fair condition £ 1
The First Five Years of The Communist International - Volume One, Good condition £7
... Volume 2 Good/fragile, £8/£3
The History of the Russian Revolution - 3 volumes, Fair condition/hardback £10
The History of the Russian Revolution volume 1 1932 edition £6
The Intelligentsia and Socialism, Fair condition 50p
The Revolution Betrayed, What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going £4
The Stalin School of Falsification £3
The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany £8
The Third International After Lenin, fragile condition £2
Their Morals and Ours, Fair condition 50p (pamphlet)
Their Morals and Ours - Marxist vs Liberal Views on Morality (Trotsky, Dewey, Novak) Good condition £5
The Permanent Revolution/Results and Prospects (1906) £8
The Revolution Betrayed - What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going, Fair condition £6
Trotsky's Writings on Britain, volume 1, Good condition £5;
Trotsky's Writings on Britain, volume 2, Good condition £5
Trotsky's Writings on Britain, volume 3, Good condition £5
Whither Russia? £4
Women and the Family £3.50
Gregory Zinoviev
History of the Bolshevik Party - From the beginnings to February 1917, Fair condition £5
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